Computer Information Systems Instructor

iSeries 400 Specialist

Norman Seaton, El Centro's eServer instructor, will coordinate this presentation.His career spans the life of midrange systems.He serves the computer world as a member of the IBM Scholars Educational Program. http://www.ecc.dcccd.edu/

Accordion teacher and performer Natasha Geddie's quest to unseat association founder Norman Seaton has all the passion of the other great feuds in music--and if that's not enough, Geddie does play a peppy version of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There."

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"Norman has been essentially practicing fraudulent business since 1989," Geddie says.

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That was the year that the TAA's nonprofit status with the IRS lapsed, three years after Geddie helped Seaton with the incorporation process.

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Since then, Geddie claims, Seaton has consistently steered callers offering paid accordion gigs to his wife, Sharon, in business under the name Accordion Entertainers.In fact, the TAA and Accordion Entertainers' phone number and address have been one and the same for years.

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Seaton reincorporated under the name the National Accordion Association, and now the two have issued rival newsletters as Geddie tries to win over the old TAA's estimated 1,000 members.

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Seaton himself is reluctant to talk about the allegations while the lawsuit is still pending, but his annoyance is evident."Did she tell you she's bipolar?She loves that," Seaton says."She's got the idea that she's not responsible for any of her actions."As evidence, he mentions Geddie's arrest in the 1980s for shoplifting and marijuana possession.Seaton, a computer science instructor at El Centro College in Dallas, is also the editor of a 1994 book, Who's Who in the Accordion World.Remarkably, he doesn't actually play the accordion, but he spends much of his spare time promoting the organization.

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Seaton also points to his wife's appearance on the front page of the July 23 Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a contributing factor."When she saw my wife's picture, she just came unwound," he says.